9th Image / 6th Day No. 21 RAPHAEL (BASS): RECITATIVE And God said: Let earth bring forth the living creature after his kind: cattle and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after their kind.

9th Image / 6th Day The second scene represents the sixth day of creation and contains three images: the ninth, tenth and eleventh. In No. 21 it is told that God lets the earth bring forth creatures including cattle, creeping things and wild beasts. The biblical And it was so´´ in Gen. 1:24 and its repetition in Gen. 1: 25 is omitted, for based on Milton the subsequent accompagnato of recitative No. 22 depicts everything specifically: lion, tiger, stag, cattle, sheep, insect and worm. Based on Milton, No. 23 briefly summarises what has been created thus far and heralds the creation of man. No. 21 RAPHAEL (BASS): RECITATIVE And God said: Let earth bring forth Source: FEDER, Georg: Joseph Haydn. Die Schöpfung (Kassel 1999), Verlag Bärenreiter.